A high-level executive at Sotheby's International Realty recently revealed to China's state television broadcaster that he personally helped a Chinese mother buy a $6.5 million Manhattan apartment for her daughter.
Sotheby's senior vice president Kevin Brown told China's CCTV that he showed apartments all over Manhattan to the buyer, who is remaining anonymous.
"And she said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU, or maybe Harvard, and so she needed to be in the center of the city and that was why she was picking this one particular apartment. So I said: 'Oh, how old is your daughter?' And she said: 'Well, she's 2′. And I was just shocked."
The lucky girl got her own luxury space in Midtown's ultra-extravagant, Park Hyatt-managed One57 skyscraper, which is still under construction.
According to One57 website, amenities include a private fitness center and yoga studio; a private dining room with full catering kitchen; a private concert hall; a private library with billiard table and 24-foot aquarium; a "pet wash room"; and an additional "discreet entrance" on 58th Street.
The news hasn't been so widely received as commenter's on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, believe the woman must have been related to a corrupt government official, according to the Telegraph.
